Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-19

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| Went with the agent to the seaside:
| He trusted no words, but trusted his eyes;
This buyer of land who was slow to decide
| For buyers must look and ponder and keel
| Their ewes wide open, though land be chcaI
| In this country of boOms and booming.
He saw Lencadia in all its glory
| OF vineyards and orchards aud sea-bcach
| grand.
And he said it is true Not half of the story
| Has been told concerning this fairy land
| And he bought bloek-bought it at once,
| For he said to buy not was the act OF II Ounce
| When the land is SO cheap and charming
South of the San Marcos river, on
the line of the California Southern
railroad, an hours ride from san Di-
ego and less than four hours ride
from Los Angeles by the A. T. Il S. f.
line now building, LEUCADIA lies in
the lap OF Paradise. She is the fair
est of all the fair daughters of the sea.
She is the Venus Amphridite OF
Southern California. The beach at
Leu cadia is rs hard as asphalt and as
level as a ballroom floor, and the surf
is so light it would net upset baby.
Generally seaside soil is not prolific
agriculturally speaking-but the lapd
at Leucadia is exceptionally fertile
and beautiful. From the edge of the
bluff overhanging the ocean it ascends
gently to the summit of the first
ridge, then it descends gently to a
valley, through which the railroad
runs, and then ascends to the summit
of the second ridge, where it descends
rapidly into II ravine running into the
San Marcos river. There are no ar
royos, no abrupt places, and no un-
even ground. Every part of the tract
is visible from every other part. II
you wish to live directly upon the
ocean, the first terrace from the beach
affords lovely building sites. If You
wish ocean breeze and view, without
the sound OF the surf, the upper ter
races will give you these. If YOU
wish a valley, sheltered from the
ocean breezes and yet within three or
four hundred yards of the beach-all
this can be had at Leucadia. The soil
is simply wonderful On the summit
or the second ridge is a ten-acre grove
of Eucalyptus trees, two years old and
twenty feet high, grown without a
drop Of water. On the slopes Of the
ridge, bordering on the ocean, are or
chards OF Adriatic figs, and fields OF
corn twelve feet high, and in the val
ley through which the railroad runs
there are vineyards of Muscat grapes.
three years old, in full bearing; apri-
cot trees loaded with fruit, and young
orange trees, as lively and as lovely
and as self-reliant us if they were not
growing within 800 yards OF the ocean
surf, within whose sound some agri-
cultural liar has remarked that "or-
anges will not grow" And all this
without. one drop of water except
what has fallen from the clouds. The
workmen are now sinking the first
well ever put down in Leucadia. with
the exception of a well which was
sunk in the valley, and which was
given up because the owner, at the
depth OF fifty feet, struck vein OF
mineral water. 1t is excellent for
gout, rheumatism and kidney disease,
and is a mild cathartic, but the we'll
digger's garden did not have the gout,
and his kidneys ranked Al, copper
bottomed and copper-fastened, and
his mules did not need cathartic, so
he gave up the well-and thus there
has never been any irrigation to help
the wonderful vegetation OF Leucadia.
(We shall clear out the mineral we'll
by and by and put house over it and
give the victims of dyspepsia a show. }
Well. this paradise is being made
ready for the market. We are some
thing more than commission agents in
the case of Leucadia-we are owners
of large block of the stock of the
Leucadia Company, and it is our hope
and our pride to help make Leucadia
the banner seaside resort of the coast.
Leucadia has been surveyed and
mapped, the avenues, 260 feet apart,
running parallel with the railroad and
ocean beach, and streets at right an
giles 400 feet apart. The avenues are
named after Greek divinities and the
streets after ancient Greek personages.
These Greeks are all thoroughly dead
and lot buyers will take no chances of
being obliged to change the names OF
the streets whereon they live on ac-
count OF subsequent misconduct OF the
people after whom the streets are
named. The streets have been cut
out, and railroad station has been
built, and a road is now being graded
down to the beach and bath houses
being erected, and siding and sta.
ton is being constructed. And when
we offer lots in Leucadia for sale, we
shall have something more to present
to purchasers than "the substance OF
things hoped for and the evidence oi
things not seen."
The streets OF Leucadia will be
planted with shade trees and water
will be piped along it's avenues, and
there will be "The Sappho," one OF
the finest seaside hetels in California
to aid in the erection of which the
Leucadia Company will devote one
fifth of the proceeds of sales of all
lots, Arrangements will also be made
looking to union church, and an op-
era house, where the plays OF Sopho
cles will be rendered, and possibly an
ampitheater, where there will be clas
sical games, ending with grand com.
bat between coyotes and anti-seaside
snarlers, with the betting in favor o
the cayotes. You who are looking fol
homes, you who are looking for in
vestments, you who are looking for a
safe and profitable speculation, wait Il
few weeks for Leucadia.
About October 10th there will be an
auction upon the ground of two or
three hundred lots to fix prices. After
that the even-numbered blocks will
be placed on sale in San Diego, and
the odd-numbered blocks will be
placed on sale at Los Angeles. Maps
and descriptive pamphlets will be
ready shortly at our Office. You don't
know where our office is? Well,
neither do we. We hope to have an
office soon. We are looking for one.
We do not propose to pay double
Broadway rents for Chath am street
den, and so we have waited; but we